Hello,
I have an electrum wallet at home and it works and shows transactions just fine.
I also installed the electrum wallet (same seed as home) in workplace computer but it will not connect (red dot bottom right).;
I have 3 questions:
1. Why is electrum showing "Not connected" and how can I make it to work?
2. Is the history showing blank page on a new wallet because it's not synced?
3. If I somehow fry a HD at my home PC without backing up the wallet, will my coins perish forever?
Thank you guys.
1. Switch to a different server:
https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-switch-to-a-different-electrum-server/2. Yes. Also it'll show blank if you haven't done any transactions with the wallet.
3. You should write down the seed words (wallet > seed) and also create a soft copy backup of the wallet file via file menu > save copy. If you don't save either of those two things then your coins will be lost in the event of a hard drive problem.